I believe there is a misprint in the Tip of the Month on page 75 of the LXF 152 magazine, as I have just spent a while trying to get the tip to work, ie, the "Instant web server" using python.

To start I could not find the character you printed in the command which I show here in red.
python -≠m SimpleHTTPServer 1111
I presume this must be a non-printing character which should not have shown in the magazine, as it does not even appear in the character map on my gnome 2.32 ubuntu 10.04, and I could not reproduce it in any way.

Being a subscriber, I copied the command from the pdf of the magazine and tried that, but that showed an "unknown option -" I then tried the command without the odd character and, BINGO! it worked without a problem.

What a useful facility/utility for quick file viewing (and transfers) around the LAN; just like giver.

The point about the tip is that it not only needs no configuration, it needs no installation either because distros come with Python as standard.

That's not to say that Transfer-on-LAN couldn't be useful, it looks like it could, but this is a tip for a quick to set up file transfer without needing to install or set up anything - just one command. However, it does work better with the command correctly typed

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

Thanks very much for that link Arno. I have just installed TOL on my machine, made a launcher for it in the Internet menu section (Ubuntu 10.04), and I have to say, it looks really great at the moment. I will play with it a for a while and see if it lives up to its first viewing promise.